Jul 1

Jul 1 In the Print Studio with Linda Pagani: Not Everything Has to Be Loud

On the occasion of her first residency at the private print studio Stone Hill Press, Misstropolis talks with Boston area visual artist Linda Pagani about process, constraints and the power of quiet work in a noisy world.

Aug 29

Aug 29 Zainab Sumu | Inside Out

Robin Hauck

ART

In her cheerful, unassuming studio in Somerville, MA, Zainab Sumu is fashioning a bridge to Africa. The artist/designer has been working on it for years, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that honors and reimagines various artistic traditions of west and north Africa with all the color, ingenuity and music the region inspires.

Apr 22

Apr 22 Cloud Cover: Karen LaMonte's Path to a Sustainable Practice

Robin Hauck

ART, SPIRIT

Sculptor Karen LaMonte gives shape and weight to subjects as amorphous as female identity and stratospheric phenomenon. With her cloud sculptures cast in marble and iron, she brings the consequential weight of climate change down to earth with a unique, material honesty.

But manifesting the weather is not the most complicated thing the Prague-based, multidisciplinary artist has done. She did something even more complex during COVID, which she hopes will be a model other artists can follow. She made her international artistic practice carbon negative.

Happy Earth Day, 2021.